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Show Peaches Popular The bureou of rullwuy economics discloses that the American appetite for peaches has become much keener In recent years. In the five year pe-tiod pe-tiod of 1923-27 the average annual production was 52,200,000 bushels, an Increase of 01 per cent over tlie flve-yenr flve-yenr period of 1903-7, compared to an Increase In population of 37 per cent The Increase Is due In a large part to the better trajsportatlon and distribution facilities. Colifornla and Georgia have become the most Important Impor-tant producing states. |